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Second Census
U.S. population totals 5.3 million, including one million African Americans, of whom 900,000 are enslaved.
Federal capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.
First recorded camp meeting revival is held in Logan County, Kentucky. -
Missouri compromise
The Missouri Compromise was the legislation that provided for the admission to the United States of Maine as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state.
kept a balance between the number of slave states and the number of free states in the Union.
It allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state at the same time Maine entered as a free state
This event increased tension in the south because it divided the rest of the Louisiana Purchase into slave and free territory. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823.
the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.
Didn't affect the north and south tension -
Nat Turner Rebellion
A slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by Nat Turner.
Rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, at least 51 being white.
Turner would end up leading one of the largest slave rebellions in American history. -
Compromise of 1850
a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850.
started a four year political confrontation between slave and free states
One of the legislative bills that were passed as part of the Compromise of 1850 was a new version of the Fugitive Slave Act. -
Fugitive Slave Act
An act that was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
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Uncle Toms Cabin
an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe
The novel had a great impact on how slavery was viewed in the south
Many Northerners realized how unjust slavery was for the first time which created more tension between the debate on whether slavery should be legal or not. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.
The initial purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to open up thousands of new farms and make feasible a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad. -
Brooks attacks sumner
Preston Brooks beats Charles Sumner with a cane.
Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was an avowed Abolitionist and leader of the Republican Party.
After the event, Lawrence gave a speech called "the crime against kanas" -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.
These debates did not cause much tension between the north and south -
Raid on the Harpers Fairy
an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Brown's party of 22 was defeated by a company of U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene.
This divided the north and south because it led them to discuss whether they agreed with it or not. -
Elections 1860
The United States Presidential Election of 1860 was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States.
dividing the United States, with the northern abolitionists against slavery and the Southerners for it -
Bleeding Kansas
a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States
This event took place between 1854 and 1861.
This created more tension in the south because a debate emerged over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.
